Monday, June 28, 2021

A Blind Painter’s Lessons In Seeing (Sargy Mann) and A POEM by me

https://improvisedlife.com/2021/06/28/sargy-mann-how-a-blind-painter-sees/
      The POEM
 click above to go,
 to see. lucky me, I see.
 See! Such joy, Selah*

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33109430https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33109430


In the last weeks of his life, the artist Sargy Mann began writing about his extraordinary career as a blind painter. The last 10 years of his life, after his eyesight had failed completely, were paradoxically his most successful - his final exhibition opened in London this week, two months after his death. Here he reflects on the nature of perception and the visual experiences that continue after the loss of sight


*A word occurring between verses or paragraphs in parts of the Hebrew Bible, often in the Psalms, perhaps indicating a pause for contemplation.

1 comment:

KiKiDo said...

I have commented on your last two posts, yet the comments do not show. Those rotten bastages!

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